A board of county commissioners in North Carolina can no longer pray in Jesus’ name!
For years, the board has extended an open invitation to religious leaders from the community to volunteer a prayer before its twice-monthly meetings, asking only that the invocations would not be an effort to proselytize or belittle other faith or belief.
But a pair of local citizens that attended the meetings regularly and were bothered by the frequent mentions of Jesus in the prayers.
After the pair sat through yet another Christian prayer, this one including references to “the Cross of Calvary” and the “Virgin Birth,” they sued the board of commissioners with help from the ACLU and Americans United for Separation of Church and State.
A judge in the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals wrote a majority opinion that legislative invocations offered in Jesus’ name are inherently “sectarian” and thus should be censored lest they make some attendees feel “uncomfortable, unwelcome and unwilling to participate in … public affairs.”
The commissioner’s court is appealing the ruling.
It is written in God’s word about a future event – And they lived and reigned with Christ for a thousand years. Rev 20:4
Will the ACLU, Americans United, Islamic extremists, atheist, agnostics, and anyone that despises God, continue to seek to remove Him.
Yes!
When the thousand years have expired, Satan will be released from his prison and will go out to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle, whose number is as the sand of the sea. They went up on the breadth of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city. And fire came down from God out of heaven and devoured them. Rev 20:7-9
It doesn’t work!
As a Christian I am disappointed, angered, agitated, and aggravated when prayer, the Bible, and the church are attacked.
However, I receive strength from God’s word when it does happen; But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power may be of God and not of us. We are hard-pressed on every side, yet not crushed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed. 2 Cor 4:7-9
Religious freedom will continue to be taken away from the followers of Jesus; but I do not lose heart for my God reigns!